Hello, This is PPD.

It’s already been a year since I first greeted you with half anticipation and half fear.
For some, it may have been just a short year that passed by,
but for me, it was the longest and most valuable year of my life because I was with all of you who play DVC.
Although I made many mistakes because It was full of new things,
I was able to safely celebrate the first anniversary because there were all of you who loved the game until now.

Today, I would like to take a look back at DVC over the past year with numbers and explain about the updates that will be carried out in the future.

That was an infographic summarizing the data for one year.

Now, I will explain about the upcoming updates.

※ All images below are in development and may differ at the time of actual update.

The first update I will introduce is ‘Town’.

A new content ‘Town’ is added to the Dragon Village Collection to add the fun of SNG.

Town is a content that is different from the Garden (existing Village) which is mainly for decoration, and is a content that is mainly for production facilities and continuous activities, and is a content to show new fun elements for DVC.

There are various currencies that you can get if you play consistently, and you can use these currencies to gradually expand the town and build new buildings.

Also, as the town develops, the time required for the new evolution form ‘Special Evolution’ is shortened, so you can expect time benefits.

About Special Evolution

Special Evolution is a new form of evolution that can evolve adult dragons once more. You can collect dragon essence or element essence through the platform that can be installed in the new village, and you can use this essence to specially evolve dragons.

When Special Evolution occurs, the personality and special form (some special forms are not applied) before evolution are maintained. For example, the Wind Dragon that will be added this time also specially evolves while maintaining the color by form.

Special Evolution is planned as the End-game content of DVC, and it is designed to be possible after investing a certain amount of time. At first, it may seem like a far-off goal, but after progressing the town content to a certain level and installing multiple platforms, the resources needed for Special Evolution are designed to be supplied in not so long cycles.

Initially, a total of 9 types of Special Evolution will be added for each element, and then 9 types will be updated at the end of May, and then 2 types will be updated at the end of June, and from July for a few months, until the number of breeds that can be specially evolved is secured. The goal is to consistently update 2 types twice a month, a total of 4 types. After that, we plan to update 2 types per month.

I would like to put the Special Evolution of all the breeds that currently exist, but Special Evolution is a work that takes quite a bit of time to guarantee its quality, so it is not realistic to match it with the addition cycle of normal dragons. We will do our best to add it consistently every month and strive to meet the Special Evolution of the dragon you want.

The Town/Special Evolution update is scheduled for the next update on April 25.

About the Goblin Market

The Goblin Market has recorded a very high content usage rate and has received a good response from our tamers, so we plan to change from the original event-style operation policy to a permanent open policy.
However, in order to open permanently, we need preliminary work such as Goblin Trade Permit removal and addition of trade limit, and after reflecting improvements suggested by you, such as increasing the deadline time when bidding at the top in the imminent closing state and expanding the number of tradable species, we plan to reopen. Until the reopening, we are collecting as much feedback from you as possible, so please feel free to suggest your opinions.

We also want to explain about the changes after May.

First, we will revise the overall policy regarding the Monthly Egg.

If you attend 25 times a month, you will be able to get one Monthly Egg without payment.

After the opening, we wanted to continue the policy of Dragon Village Collection, ‘All species can be acquired for free, but there are forms that can only be acquired by payment’,

Many people have expressed regret about the fact that they cannot get the first generation form of the Monthly Egg.

So we plan to change the policy so that if you consistently access the first generation Monthly Egg, you can get one. For this function, the attendance book will be changed after the May patch, and the Monthly Egg will be placed in the last reward.

Not only this, but we also plan to further increase the accessibility of the Monthly Egg for F2P tamers.

Now, the Monthly Egg that has passed more than a year will also be available for purchase with Special Dragon Drink.

In the future, those who have secured a large amount of Drink through games such as trading by playing the game consistently and diligently will be able to purchase up to 2 eggs of the month that have passed a year with a drink.

Of course, those who have already purchased should not be harmed, so it will be much less efficient than buying with diamonds, but if you think of it as providing a choice other than payment to users who have secured a large amount of drink among those who have played for a considerable period of time, I would appreciate it.

The policy on the second generation form of the Monthly Egg will also change.

After adding the second generation form that appears when breeding the same special form in the Monthly Egg, we received an opinion that the quality of the second generation form that is not special seems to be lowered, and we want to correct this.

The special second generation form was a part that we proceeded hoping that even users who proceed without payment would feel a little bit of getting a special form, but after adding this form, we agree with the opinion that the existing normal second generation form feels like it has removed the decoration.

Therefore, in the future, in the case of normal second generation forms, we plan to try to make a form with a slightly different feeling or different characteristics. It will be applied from the Monthly Egg in May and we will continue to reflect feedback.

In addition, the probability of the special second generation form appearing when breeding the same first generation form will also be adjusted upward, and we plan to increase the possibility of meeting the special second generation. Specifically, it is planned to be adjusted upward from 40% to 64% when breeding the same first generation form. Since the normal second generation can be obtained for sure when breeding the first generation of different forms, it is a measure to reduce the unpleasant experience of you by correcting it to some extent. This measure will be applied from the update on April 25.

About excessive daily content

We understand the complaints that there is too much content to take care of every day after the recent addition of the Temple Estella.

To reduce this, we plan to greatly improve the convenience of already consumed content so that rewards can be obtained as quickly as possible.

At the end of May, we plan to add a sweeping function that allows you to choose whether to get egg fragments and 3 eggs with one button touch from the underground body.

Even after that, we are preparing a plan to be able to take measures so that you can receive rewards while spending as little time as possible, even if you suffer a certain loss in contents such as Estella and Colosseum.

About the Festival

Through the cases of Nessie and God?Dragon, we learned that it is difficult for our tamers to apply a difficult probability to dragons that are already difficult to obtain because the period in which they can be obtained is limited. 

Therefore, if we proceed with a similar event in the exploration in the future, we plan to raise the probability overwhelmingly instead of setting a short period. 

In the case of this Eclipse, the appearance weight is set to 2500, which means that it comes out about 43.8 times more than the 57 weight of the Alien Dragon, which has appeared the most in a year. 
(The probability that a specific dragon appears in the exploration area is [the weight of the dragon / the sum of the weights of all dragons in the area].) 

Since the current exploration area has measures to prevent the three appearing dragons from overlapping, there will be no cases where all are Eclipse, so we expect that those who want dragons other than Eclipse in the existing exploration area will be able to enjoy the exploration without difficulty.

In addition to these improvements, we are also preparing a completely new type of event, a first anniversary event where you can get your own aura, and we are constantly preparing various updates in the future. Detailed information will be delivered through the patch notes.

Even in May last year when we just launched the game, the game that we wondered if we could continue was able to celebrate its first anniversary thanks to all of you. I would like to say thank you once again. Although it may still be a game with many shortcomings, we will continue to make efforts to make a fun game with all our might.

Thank you for always playing Dragon Village Collection.